Hydrocarbon-vapor stove



(No Model.) 2 sheets -sheet 1. M. G. FAGAN.

HYDROGARBON VAPOR STOVE.

No. 341,739. I

Patented May 11, 1886.

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HYDROGABBON VAPOR STOVE No. 341,739. Patented May 11, 1886.-

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MICHEL o. FAGAN, OFTROY, NEW YORK.

HYDROCARBON=VAPOR STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,739, dated May 11,1866,

Application filed June 9, 1884. Serial No. 134,265.

- uary 1?, 1882, No. 252,307.

.nearly full ofhydrocarbon liquid, the air becomes so heavily chargedwith combustible vapor, ifthe whole pressure-current of air is under itsinfluence, that it is liable to evolve' smoke while burning, and bymixing air with it before it reaches the burners this contingency isavoided.

Another object of my invention is to combine with abydrocarbon-vapor-burning stove an oven and warming-closet, and also ameans to burn a part of the hydrocarbon vapor pro duced by the apparatusconnected with the stove for purposes of illumination, that the cookingoperations being carried on may be seen when the stove is being used atnight, the details of which, in construction and an rangement, will befully given and explained hereinafter.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are twoplates of drawings containing four figures illustrating my invention,with the same designation of its parts by letters of reference used inall of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a hydrocarbon-vapor burning stove containing my invention and improvement. Fig. 2shows a longitudinal central vertical section of the same stove. Fig. 3

illustrates a perspective of the evaporating (No model.)

vessel, and Fig. t shows in an enlarged pro portion a valve and a branchpipe in part that are used to divideand regulate the entering current ofair and its distribution. h

The several parts of the stove are designated by letter-reference, andthe function of the parts is described as follows: The letter S.indicates the stove sides, T its boiler-hole top, and 6 its bottom. Theletter B designates an evaporatingvessel for containing hydrocarbonliquid, said vessel being made with labyrinthian passages or fines t,formed by partitions F, and the letters a indicate wicks suspended insaid lines to facilitate and increase the evaporation of the hydrocarbonliquid, the said hydrocarbon vessel thus shown being the same inconstruction that is illustrated in my patent before alluded to.

The letter P indicates an inclosure contain ing a mechanism forinjecting air by means of clock-work and a fan into one of the outerflues of the evaporating-vessel by and through an offset or tube, pconnecting the center flue with the air-supply pipep, and p designatesapipe leading from the central flue of the evaporating-vessel, to conveyaway to be burned the mixed air and hydrocarbon vapor.

The letter p indicates a pipe that connects with the air-conveyingpipep, and the Vapor and air conveying pipe 1), and V indicates a valveplacedon the pipe 19", which, when open,

permits air under pressure to pass to the pipe 1- and mix with thecombined air and vapor coming from the evaporating-vessel, and so thatwhen the vapor is too dense to burn with out smoking, air may be mixedwith itto prevent this diiiiculty.

The letters 1) and p indicate branch pipes, which connect with the pipe1), and supply flame to the under side of the boiler-hole top openings,0 O, and p a pipe for conveying the combustible vapor to thewaterreservoir R, the pipes 29 p 13 all connecting with the pipe 19 fromwhich they receive asupply of hydrocarbon vapor.

The letter (Z designates a pipe leading from the pipe p to convey a partof the vapor to be burned beneath the oven N, and the letter J indicatesa pipe connecting with the central chamber or flue 0f theevaporatingvessel B, which pipe is provided with burners for theignition and burning of the vapor for illumimating the surroundings ofthe stove when the latter is used at night or in a dark place, so thatthe operations of cooking may be observed.

The top T and bottom e are arranged in about the same manner herein asthe same parts are shown in the stove illustrated in the patent alludedto. and to this structure have added an oven. N, made with a top flue,F, side flues, F F, and a bottom flue, E, constructed with ingressair-openings n at the front, for the admission of air to the said bottom flue, E.

The letter V designates a valve on the pipe leading to the oven, and Vand V valves on the pipe leading to the boiler-hole openings 0, locatedin the top of the stove.

The letter V indicates a valve on the pipe for supplying hydrocarbonvapor to the reservoir R, and as these valves V" V V V are arranged inthe pipes the reservoir or either of the boiler-hole top openings may beused separately from the others, or all of them may be used together, ora part of them used together. The reservoir R is combined with a bottomflue and a side flue and exit-opening, the latter being designated at mand the former at I am aware that for heating soldering-irons there hasbeen used a close vessel or reservoir to contain air under pressure,which was connected by means of a pipe with a carbon vaporizer, and thatthe mixture of air and carbonized vapor'passing from the latter to burnwas supplied by a current of air coming from an air-blast, with thelatter produced by a mechanical means that was separate from that whichforced the air into the close vessel or reservoir. This older meansdiffered from mine in the fact that in the latter but one means ofgiving motion or pressure to the air is employed, and the moving currentof air when passing through a conduit is divided before entering thehydrocarbon vaporizing-vessel, one port-ion of the current beingconducted by a pipe to the latter and the other current through a pipeto mix with the carbonized air, with an intermediate valve on the latterpipe to regulate the amount of passing air.

For a mechanism to supply air under pressure any of the well-known meansemployed for that purpose may be used, that which I prefer to employbeing actuated by a weight and clock-work which operates a fan.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patcut is 1 The stove herein described, provided with thechamber P, having mounted therein an air-forcing mechanism to produce acurrent of air therefrom, and provided with anairconduit pipe, 1) 19 1),having a valve, 2/, in combination with the hydrocarbon chamber B,provided with a conduit-pipe, 172, provided with a burner at itsdelivery end, and arranged to intersect the open end of the air-pipep",substantially as described, and for the purpose stated.

2. In a vapor-stove, the combination of the air-chamber P, havingmounted therein an air-forcing mechanism for producing a current of air,and provided with the conduit-pipe p 19* 10 having a valve, 12, andarranged with its exit end to openin the hydrocarbon-conduit pipe. andthe vaporizing-chamber B, having a hydrocarbon-conduit pipe intersectingthe end of the air-conduit pipe, with the piped, provided with a burnerat its delivery end, and having valve 1;", and arranged with itsentrance end to intersect the hydrocarbon pipe, and opposite to the exitend of the airpipe, substantially as described, and for the purposestated.

3. In combination with the air-chamber P, having mounted therein anair-forcing mechanism for producing a current of air therefrom, andprovided with .the conduit-pipep p 10 having a valve, 12, and arrangedwith its exit end to open into the hydroearb0n-condnit pipe, and thehydrocarbon-chamber B, provided with the pipe 19, leading therefrom andintersected by the open end of the pipe 19 of the pipe 1), arranged onthe upper end of the pipe 1)", and provided with a burner at itsdelivery end, substantially as described, and for the purpose stat-ed.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 28th day of May, 1884, and in thepresence of the two witnesses whose names were by them hereto written.

MICHEL e. :FAGAN.

Witnesses:

FRED HAM, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL.

